George Luz

George Luz (17 June 1921-15 October 1998) was a US Army Technician 4th Grade who served in Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, US 506th Infantry Regiment during World War II.

Biography
George Luz was born in Fall River, Massachusetts on 17 June 1921, and he grew up in Rhode Island. He enlisted in the US Army on 25 August 1942 and became known as a troublemaker and a comic, and he did an impression of a regimental staff officer that led to Captain Herbert Sobel cutting an English farmer's fence and letting loose a herd of cows. Luz was stranded during the 6 June 1944 Operation Overlord airborne invasion of France, but he regrouped with his company during the Battle of Carentan. Luz also fought in Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge, keeping morale up with his humor in dire times. After the war, he settled in West Warwick, Rhode Island, and he became a maintenance consultant. On 15 October 1998, he was killed in an industrial accident when a 7,200-lb industrial dryer slipped off its supports and fell on him. He was 77 years old.